Archives for June 2016

How Edwin Sifuna totally eclipsed Ababu Namwamba By P W Edwin Watenya Sifuna, the incoming ODM Secretary General is not your ordinary run-off-the-mill political or legal rookie. Edu, as he is popularly known, has been one of the most active lawyers providing pro-bono services to the opposition CORD and its members. Edu was deeply involved […]

By Jackson Omondi Yesterday, I penned an opinion piece touching on the Ababu issue, on the post, I wondered why the party’s head honchos were reluctant to weigh in on the Ababu story. Well, later that day, ODM’s number two man, Governor Hassan Joho, emphatically weighed in with a stinging critique that summarily signaled a […]

Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced. He said he would attempt to “steady the ship” over the coming weeks and months but that “fresh leadership” […]

Deputy President William Ruto has been linked to a plan by some ODM legislators led by secretary general Ababu Namwamba to take over Dr Julia Ojiambo’s Labour Party of Kenya. Ababu has said he has been frustrated by ODM and wants to move where he is appreciated and not merely tolerated. Multiple sources, some known […]

A WORD FOR THE BABY SEATER GENERAL (BSG) _ ABABU NAMWAMBA… By Justus Atuti In the Kisii Community, where I come from, modern or not, today or yesterday, and even tomorrow, men never stayed home to baby seat. Men never took, and never will they take paternal leave to sit around with their wives to […]

ODM Deputy Party Leader and Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho has dismissed claims that some leaders are being frustrated in ODM. Joho also dismissed allegations by Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba that western region (Luhyas) are being mistreated in the party, saying Ababu may be searching for an ‘exit strategy’ by smearing the party. Ababu had […]

STATEMENT BY ODM PROFESSIONALS: In late 2014, the Orange Democratic Movement responded to the cries of its followers for a new, youthful and vibrant leadership to guide and energize the party ahead of 2017 elections. One by one, senior party stalwarts paved way. The Hon. Prof Anyang Nyongo, until then a reliable, steadfast and steady […]

Renegade ODM Secretary General Ababu Namwamba has been told to leave ODM if he is not satisfied with his treatment in the party rather than keep holding the party at ransom. Addressing the press in Nairobi, a section of Luhya professionals led by High Court of Kenya advocate Edwin Sifuna criticised the ODM leader who […]

It has time and again been stated that Kenyan politics is the same game that never changes, what changes is the players. A video has emerged showing the day when Deputy President William Ruto crossed lanes with anti-riot officers. In the undated video, Ruto is seen leading protesters on the streets chanting ‘Yote yawezekana bila […]

By J Omondi It’s now in the public domain that ODM Secretary General ‘Generali’ Ababu Namwamba is officially a political punching bag. The Party that he purports to lead is now hammer and tongs against the man who gave us the “honorable member for Othaya” refrain. Remember, this was the first time, a sitting Head […]

By Arap D ABABU Namwamba is walking on a dangerous political road. While he is a brilliant guy and a maverick, his latest “unofficial” attempts to chat an own political path, away from ODM is overly-ambitious, ill guided and politically foolish. There was Martin Shikuku and Koigi wa Wamwere. Despite their many admirers, they failed […]

By P W ODM legislators from Western Region have addressed a press conference at CORD Secretariat and dismissed a statement attributed to ODM Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba in which he bitterly complains about being undermined within the party. At the same time, ODM Professionals from Western are at this moment congregating at Lillian Towers (Nairobi […]

STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR WYCLIFFE OPARANYA ON ODM MATTERS: As Deputy Party Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement, I take great reservations to the utterances attributed to the party’s Secretary General Hon Ababu Namwamba to the effect that the Luhya community is being persecuted and undermined in ODM. These utterances are unfortunate indeed and not befitting […]

By K Amos Eprahim Hon Ababu Namwamba good morning. I have got a word with you. I couldn’t pass it over yesterday as I was overwhelmed with my birthday parties. Now, I understand you are being frustrated in ODM. You are a bitter man that in your docket as SG you lost most sweeping mandates. […]

As weeks marred with protests, police brutality and dead bodies rolled by, the Jubilee government did nothing but up the ante on more muscular measures to curtail basic freedoms and giving the Constitution a big, fat middle finger. While CORD leaders kept on fighting and demanding basic irreducible minimums, Jubilee’s gung ho comportment was palpable. […]

By Mikez Michael Gisesa The news of Nyakoni’s death was received with a mixture of joy, relief, and a little sorrow. Facebook pages like Keroka Town Youth were awash with both celebratory and satirical comments directed at the departed. Some even engaged in what literary scholars would call apostrophe. No death has ever created such […]

By Dorcas Sakozy The recent incarceration of MPs at Pangani Police Station cell 4 might have been a blessing in disguise. They were remanded in custody for hate speech and experienced first hand the tribulations many ordinary Kenyans go through. It was quite humbling for our leaders who are used to dining and wining in […]

VITAL LESSONS FROM THE PANGANI SIX. The recent incarceration of MPs at Pangani Police Station cell 4 might have been a blessing in disguise. They were remanded in custody for hate speech and experienced first hand the tribulations many ordinary Kenyans go through. It was quite humbling for our leaders who are used to dining […]

Sonko has written to the Speaker of the Senate Ekwe Ethuro urging him to ignore a previous letter by Kidero to the Speaker calling for disciplinary action against him over last week’s incident. Sonko denies Kidero’s claims that he attempted to physically attack the Governor when he appeared before the Senate Public Accounts Committee. COG […]